Alone The Night
Reflections on Life From an Adirondack Lean-to Have you ever spent a night alone in the woods? I have. Whether bivouacked in a deer hunter’s mountainside tent, working long summer days as a trail hand from a remote high-peaks cabin, enjoying the cedar log solitude of my favorite lean-to,...
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Cedar Log Surgery
Lean-to Life in the Adirondack Outback Those Cedar Logs Standing Silent and Strong My Refuge, My Sanctuary My Soul’s Sacred Home I Feel Your Wounds Bleeding Anguished Tears Scar My Heart ********** I had planned on staying Sunday night, June 25th, after my brother Ray & I rendezvoused at...
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Scarred Cedar Logs
Bull Rush Bay Lean-to Desecration! Discoveries, Musings, Encounters & Memories on My Journey to Zen I suppose folks could consider this the fourth in my ongoing series of Bull Rush Bay lean-to life stories. For the past fifty-one years I’ve been canoeing in to Middle Saranac Lake’s site 63...
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“Middle Saranac 1”
A Middle Saranac Lake lean-to look-back collection of memories, artifacts, legends and photos. My family first visited Middle Saranac Lake’s site 63 Bull Rush Bay in 1972. The photo above depicts the lean-to that was there by that time. It quickly became the cedar log summer home...
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The Phoenix Rises
The New Bull Rush Bay lean-to,
Site 63, Middle Saranac Lake,
Fall 2021...
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Those Cedar Logs
Author’s Note: This story appeared in the September 9, 2021 online edition of The Adirondack Almanack. “Adirondack lean-tos are so much more than simple cedar log structures built in the woods.” “The Bull Rush Bay lean-to is scheduled some time later this month to be demolished and replaced.” ...
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